Introduction

Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Transcripts, contains transcripts for approximately 250 hours (1,660 calls) of Arabic Levantine telephone conversation collected between 2003 and 2005. The correspnding speech files may be found in LDC2006S29.

This corpus is the combination of four former training data sets: LDC2004E21 and LDC2004E22, LDC2004E65 and LDC2004E66, LDC2005S07 and LDC2005T03 and LDC2005S14(Speech and Transcripts). More than half of the speakers are Lebanese, the others are Jordanian, Palestinian, and Syrian. The table below shows the distribution of the speakers' national origin:

559 Jordanian

1,853 Lebanese

355 Palestinian

67 Syrian

484 Levantine speakers whose national origin could not be determined.

All transcription files are encoded in UTF-8.

Samples

For an example of the data in this corpus, view this image of the transcripts in Arabic.